prints the string with enough leading spaces?

Question

Python provides a built-in function called len that returns the length of a string, so the value of `len('allen')` is `5`. Write a function named `right_justify` that takes a string named `s` as a parameter and prints the string with enough leading spaces so that the last letter of the string is in column 70 of the display. ``` >>> right_justify('allen') allen ``` I solved it like this: ``` def right_justify(s): print " " + s right_justify('allen') ``` Is it right? Are there built-in Python methods to do what I need to do?

Accepted Answer

Its quite easy with string formatting:

```
def right_justify(s):
    print "%70s" % s
```

prints the string with enough leading spaces?

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